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Jan Krutisch
June 29, 2012
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Parsing Binary Data
A lighting talk about parsing binary data in ruby with bindata gem.
Jan Krutisch
June 29, 2012
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Parsing and Writing Binary Data in Ruby Jan Krutisch @halfbyte
[email protected]
señor developer
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Protracker "mod" files
Binary Format
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‣ Instrument Metadata ‣ Sample Data ‣ Pattern Data ‣
Sequence Data Mod File Contents
‣ Instrument Metadata ‣ Sample Data ‣ Pattern Data ‣
Sequence Data Mod File Contents Array of Structs (=Array of Hashes)
‣ Instrument Metadata ‣ Sample Data ‣ Pattern Data ‣
Sequence Data Mod File Contents Array of Structs (=Array of Hashes) Array of Blobs
‣ Instrument Metadata ‣ Sample Data ‣ Pattern Data ‣
Sequence Data Mod File Contents Array of Structs (=Array of Hashes) Array of Blobs Arrays of Arrays of Arrays of Structs
‣ Instrument Metadata ‣ Sample Data ‣ Pattern Data ‣
Sequence Data Mod File Contents Array of Structs (=Array of Hashes) Array of Blobs Arrays of Arrays of Arrays of Structs Array of Integers
Simple Approach
Serializer / Deserializer
Different Datatypes
Protracker Datatypes
Protracker Datatypes ‣ 8Bit signed binary blobs
Protracker Datatypes ‣ 8Bit signed binary blobs ‣ UInt8
Protracker Datatypes ‣ 8Bit signed binary blobs ‣ UInt8 ‣
UInt16 (Endianness?)
Protracker Datatypes ‣ 8Bit signed binary blobs ‣ UInt8 ‣
UInt16 (Endianness?) ‣ \0-Terminated/Padded Strings
Protracker Datatypes ‣ 8Bit signed binary blobs ‣ UInt8 ‣
UInt16 (Endianness?) ‣ \0-Terminated/Padded Strings ‣ Int4 (Yes, that‘s a signed halfbyte)
And this...
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Procedural Mess
Declarative
gem "bindata"
class ProtrackerModule < BinData::Record endian :big string :name, :length =>
20, :trim_padding => true array :samples, :type => Sample, :length => 31 uint8 :pattern_table_length uint8 :unused array :pattern_table, :type => :uint8, :initial_length => 128 [...]
class ProtrackerModule < BinData::Record endian :big string :name, :length =>
20, :trim_padding => true array :samples, :type => Sample, :length => 31 uint8 :pattern_table_length uint8 :unused array :pattern_table, :type => :uint8, :initial_length => 128 [...]
class ProtrackerModule < BinData::Record endian :big string :name, :length =>
20, :trim_padding => true array :samples, :type => Sample, :length => 31 uint8 :pattern_table_length uint8 :unused array :pattern_table, :type => :uint8, :initial_length => 128 [...]
class ProtrackerModule < BinData::Record endian :big string :name, :length =>
20, :trim_padding => true array :samples, :type => Sample, :length => 31 uint8 :pattern_table_length uint8 :unused array :pattern_table, :type => :uint8, :initial_length => 128 [...]
class ProtrackerModule < BinData::Record endian :big string :name, :length =>
20, :trim_padding => true array :samples, :type => Sample, :length => 31 uint8 :pattern_table_length uint8 :unused array :pattern_table, :type => :uint8, :initial_length => 128 [...]
array :patterns, :type => Pattern, :initial_length => lambda { pattern_table.max
+ 1 }
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Demo
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